Nurse’s Song (of innocence)

When the voices of children are heard on the green
and laughing is heard on the hill,
my heart is at rest within my breast
and everything else is still.

"Then come home my children the sun is gone down
and the dews of night arise
come, come, leave off play, and let us away
till the morning appears in the skies."

No no let us play, for it is yet day
and we cannot go to sleep.
Besides in the sky, the little birds fly
and the hills are all covered with sheep

Well well go and play till the light fades away
and then go home to bed
the little ones leaped and shouted and laughed
and all the hills echoed.
William Blake 1757-1827